Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hospital has barred Nurse Cho from further work there, though it praised her record of service over the past eleven years. Cho's lawyer, Arthur Blitz, complained last week that his client is being used as a "scapegoat." Said he: "The hiring of a private-duty nurse does not relieve the hospital of its own responsibilities...
Their latest album just hit No. 1, their concert tour is the hottest since Springsteen' s, but U2' s blitz has an impact all its own. They have "great songs and great heart," and more: these four musicians from Ireland also draw crowds with their lyrical insistence that rock and social commitment are inseparable. As one of their songs puts it, there are "new dreams tonight." See MUSIC...
After Toscanini had more than proved his genius as leader of the New York Philharmonic in the 1930s, NBC radio hired him, formed an orchestra for him, and launched a media blitz that celebrated the maestro as the foremost conductor of the European music...
...while this media blitz will probably end quickly, it hasn't stopped. Saturday, on ABC's "Wide World of Sports," there is a good chance that Berkoff's race will be shown as part of the show's swimming coverage...
Gorbachev's blitz continued through the week. The day after his speech to the Moscow forum, the Soviet leader embarked on a tour of the independent- minded Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia. The visit was his first to an ethnic region since last December's Kazakhstan riots (see following story). Accompanied by his wife Raisa and Soviet television crews, Gorbachev waded into a crowd in Riga, the Latvian capital, and told the people...